so i'm a moron...what else is new? but seriously, i think i need a new nickname after the day i just had. how bout 'Raph the Retard'? or 'the Forgetful Fool'? nyeh...i'll let the People decide. so let's see, where shall i begin recounting my saga of stupidity? o i dunno, let's start with this morning...
1. forgot about 0800 vball practice this morning @ CIF (was lookin forward to it too), didn't even realize i'd missed it until i sat down in my 1030 morning class, which is around the time that i realized that i 2. forgot my notebook at home, had to ask the girl sitting next to me if i could have 2 sheets of paper (some ppl ask to "borrow" paper, but i mean, are you seriously going to "borrow" paper today and bring a few sheets to "pay her back" next class? of course not, so i got to the point). she was nice enough to give me 5, which i thought was good since i'd need more paper for taking notes in my Psych 211 class later on during the day, since i wasn't planning on going home before then.
so, after morning class i was gonna go to the gym to try and "repent" for all the food i ate the past 2 days - Monday night: nasty greasy dinner from mr. panino's (never again!) and a pizza combo from Campus Pizza to alleviate my allergy attack on the way home from night class, Tuesday night: dinner (thai chicken fried noodles) @ Front Row for carter's bday and dessert (frozen yogurt w/ strawberries & skor bar bits, mmm...) from TCBY, then dinner #2 (fried rice, fried wonton, "general tso chicken") @ GC after Men's Cell, and dessert #2 for Ernest's bday (ice cream cake) - but i 3. forgot my shorts. wonderful. so i guess i will be going home afterall.
so i hustle home (which is possible since i live so close now) and decide to change since i'm there anyway. alright, back to school, straight to the gym. workout was good, fast forward to the locker room. it's around 2pm, planned to study/read on campus till my 1630 class, so that's enough time to warrant a shower. so i go and when i slam the nozzle to shut off the water i reach for my towel. waitaminut...what towel? b/c of my last-minute decision to take a shower there instead of at home, i'd 4. forgotten to check out a towel at the equipment desk (at this point i started wondering whether i'd left the other three quarters of my brain in bed or in the kitchen). wondeful. funny how this "no towel" business somehow feels familiar... lucky for me, on my way out (i was gonna just put on my shorts n get a towel from the equipment desk) i saw a towel just lyin' there on a bench. curious, i took a closer look; perfectly dry, folded, seems unused...good enough for me! so on top of not having to drip all over the place, since i didn't check this towel out, i don't necessarily have to return it either...so more linen for me (i know wally's grossed out if he reads this, but c'mon dude!). things are lookin' up right? wrong.
1630 class, the Psych 211 class that i'm trying to get an override for. i check my wallet as i wait in line to talk to the prof...5.forgot my override form. now i'm feeling clinically stupid. on monday, when i had the form, the prof wasn't here cuz we just watched some stupid movie. but now that he is here, my form isn't. great. to add insult to injury, the TA passed out these handouts during class (people passed them along starting at one end of the row) and i was on the far end of the row. right when it gets to me they run out. beautiful. lucky for me again though, the girl next to me gave me hers (actlly she only gave it to me when her friend next to her told her to give it to me and that she'd photocopy hers for her). ah so PSYCHOLOGY, that's where the girls are. i should've known, they love messing with the minds of men. since i'm still only on "safari" i didn't proceed to fully identify and evaluate these specimens, but i think they were kinda cute. but a complete observation would've required my full attention anyways, which would not have been possible b/c about halfway through the lecture i was distracted by a powerful force...someone had busted out a char siu bao! i could smell it in the air, and my primal instinct told me i had to find out where it was coming from. i started looking around, over my shoulder, twisted around to try and scan behind...but when i couldn't locate the scent's origin after about 5 seconds i decided to stop, lest i weird out the girl beside me.
so there it is, my dimwitted day. on the bright side; i didn't forget to pack or bring my lunch to school, and tonight's the grocery run which i didn't forget! woohoo...if i'd forgotten those then i'd be clinically insane. but i didn't. so i'm not. still, even though i was feeling a bit down on myself, feeling a little incompetent, i was lucky enough to remember that i still have what it takes, that i still possess the skill and ability to brighten the sky, even in my darkest hour(s)...and so i used it to the fullest and made myself one hell of a dinner:
(using what supplies i had left before tonight's grocery run)
p.s. i was just informed by esther that Wednesday is "hump" day. good 'ol esther:
